CLINTON HILL — Eat your heart out.
A pair of partners behind the former Fulton Street cafe Tilda All Day are back with a new restaurant and bar that will butcher its own meat in house and serve a variety of offal-focused dishes, including duck heart and bird's liver.
Otway — German for “successful in battle” — opened Friday at 903 Fulton St., after a heated dispute between owners Samantha Safer and Daniel Nusbaum led to the closing of Tilda All Day last September.
Pea croquettes with lardo. (Credit: Otway)
Nusbaum is out of the partnership, but former head chef Claire Welle will be returning to helm the kitchen, leading an all-female team of cooks, the restaurant said.
The eatery will make everything in its kitchen, including a naturally leavened whole wheat rye bread, as well as butchering a variety of meats and internal organs there.
Dishes include duck-heart skewers, poached oysters with roasted sunchokes and caramelized béchamel, fried tripe with a house-made version of HP sauce, and squab with root vegetable tart and bird’s liver.
Desserts includes a burnt almond pudding with loganberry and woodruff, as well as a buckwheat cake with chocolate and herbs.
The buckwheat chocolate cake with herbs. (Credit: Otway)
Prices range from $4 to 8 for snack dishes, $12 to 16 for appetizers $26 to 32 for entrees.
The restaurant will no longer serve breakfast, lunch or coffee, but will feature beer, wine and classic cocktails.
The 41-seat space was designed and built by Safer and Welle.
Otway will be open Thursday through Monday, serving drinks starting at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Last seatings for dinner will be at 10:30 p.m.
Back in September, Safer filed to remove Nusbaum as a managing partner for the restaurant in a complaint filed at Kings County Civil Court, claiming arguments with staff members led to the eventual resignation of Welle.
